Koronovios: Attica is “boiling” – New Year’s Eve viral load rises



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With the epidemiological picture “clear” after the holidays and the weekend, and revealing the real number of daily cases of coronavirus (announced yesterday 928 cases compared to the 429 announced the day before yesterday) and with the rate of rigid intubated (407 intubated were announced yesterday against 405 the day before) the country continues to walk like a tightrope in the field of the epidemic. In January they have arrived 213 people, with the total number of coronavirus victims now standing at 5,051.

The festive season throws a curtain this week with the backdrop of Strict measures of the new emergency closure in … confinement, but experts take for granted the resurgence of the epidemic in the next two to three weeks as a result of mobility and rallies at Christmas and New Years.

Already the data on the viral load in your wastewater Attica announced by the Department of Chemistry of the University of Athens portend a difficult January. The experts found that the load doubled in wastewater at christmas and triplicate on New Years Eve. This means that based on the findings in the sewage system, the increase in cases will begin to be reflected from next week in the daily number of cases, which will cause a new resurgence of the epidemic in the basin.

However, the number of 928 cases from yesterday is considered the one that represents the course of the epidemic in our country – a number that reaches a four-digit number and not the two or three hundred public holidays and holidays that were mentioned in the previous days. The number of tests performed in the last 24 hours was almost 32,000, a figure four times higher than that announced the day before yesterday and relative to last Sunday’s inspections, when 429 positive cases were confirmed.

1/3 of the cases recorded in Attica (326)However, the diffusion in yesterday’s epidemiological bulletin was great, since there were 44 regional units with positive cases of coronavirus. In fact, there were among them seven islands with what this means for case management and health services reflections in case a patient needs hospitalization – transport or air transport with special capsule and high operational availability.

The distribution in Attica shows that specific restrictive measures in West Attica performed as site logs now a small number of cases – yesterday had 33 positive cases as much as the southern sector of Athens. On the contrary, the central sector of Athens with 75 positive cases, the western sector with 57, the eastern Attica with 53 cases show the increase in the mobility of the coronavirus and obviously of the population.

In the hospitals yesterday they were finished 185 imports, a number increased significantly compared to the number of 140-160 imports made in the last five days. It will be seen in the next few days if it signals a resurgence in hospitalizations. In total, patients with Covid-19 infection yesterday amounted to 1,977, of which 580 were in ICU, MAF and others.

In Attica hospitals there is a small increase in patients and in the intubated compared to the 24 hours immediately before, the number of patients increased by 20 and the number of intubated increased by 7. Yesterday, 476 patients were treated in the basin hospitals in simple clinics and another 150 in Units of which 131 were intubated.

On the contrary, in their hospitals Northern Greece is visible decompression of the epidemic. Yesterday, 710 patients were treated in simple clinics, or 1/3 of those who were treated exactly one month earlier. On December 5, the number of patients in Macedonian and Thracian hospitals reached 2,000 and another 312 were intubated. Took four weeks emergency shutdown to appease the tsunami of patients in simple clinics while in ICU the decline is even slower, since yesterday 177 were hospitalized, of which 166 were intubated.

Another 186 patients with coronavirus infection are hospitalized in the hospitals of Thessaly, Epirus, Central Greece and the Peloponnese and 80 in Units, with the image in both fields of the NSS, in the simple clinics and in the ICU to be controlled and away from the pressure that exists in northern Greece.

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